Thing

Abstract

So far we have dealt largely with fictions: entities deprived of most of their properties, and forms without a definite stuff. However, we warned that these are fictions and anticipated that they would enable us to construct the notion of a real thing as a fully qualitied individual. This is indeed what a concrete or material object, such as a radio wave or a person or a society is: namely an entity endowed with all its properties, both intrinsic and mutual, permanent and transient.